Why I haven't read your latest post yet

I am, at the present time, far behind on my comic blog-post reading.

That happens every so often. I get busy and don't spend much time online, or I need to use my online time in other ways and don't get to it, and before you know it there are thousands of posts left to read in Bloglines. Right now I think I've got a record-setting backlog of post-reading with over 8000 posts left unread. That's over 8000 pieces of other people's time and effort, just waiting for me.

Now, I'm not giving all the blame to my poor time-management skills. Some of it has to do with my inability to resist adding a blog to my list (there are, erm, 285 blogs on it).

I don't think it's that I totally lack any discernment. (Maybe it is. How would I know? :)) I think it's more that, after all these years, I still can't get past the idea that Something Comic-Related on the Internet is a rare and precious thing. That I need to read it all because there just isn't all that much of it. Clearly this belief contradicts all the evidence, but I can't seem to get past it.

The result, of course, is that my ambition to read the comic internet exceeds my ability to do so. By a lot. A whole lot.

I do eventually get around to reading everything on the list. I just don't do it in a timely manner.